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A/N: Wow! I've like not updated in forever! Well here's for all those people who've been waiting for a new chapter!

Chapter 3

After about a twenty minute phone conversation, consisting of giggles and flirtations, a date was set for when Link and Zelda would meet for a tutoring session. It was going to be the Friday coming, after school, at the library.

Link shakily hung up his cell phone, his heart all a flutter. He was still laying on the floor, he realized, but he didn't have the strength to get up. He sighed happily and spread his limbs out around him.

The blonde thought about how he would go about that day, in the presence of the fourth goddess of beauty. Indeed, he'd be in public with her! That would certainly give him a good reputation, not that he currently had a bad one.

Link frowned slightly, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "Do I have anything planned for that day?" he murmured to himself.

His younger sister's voice cut through his thoughts. "Link! Sheik is here!" Saria called up the stairs.

Link blinked. "Sheik?" he repeated.

"Yes?"

Link nearly jumped out of his skin as he heard the voice of his cousin right at his bedroom doorway. "Gah! Damnit Sheik! I thought I told you to stop doing that ninja stuff around me!" Link grumbled, rubbing the back of his head that he had slammed onto the floor in his surprised stupor.

Sheik chuckled while Link peeled himself from the floor and mumbled about annoying warping cousins. Link brushed himself off and eyed his cousin suspiciously, taking note that he was still wearing the clothes he had worn to school.

"So…what're you doing here?" Link asked.

Sheik stood up straight from leaning on the door frame and entered the room, sitting at Link's desk. "I was just wondering why you left school without waiting for us. Malon was really mad-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Link interrupted, rolling his eyes and flopping down onto his bed. "She had to get a ride with Ruto, the girl who obsesses over me."

Sheik blinked in surprise. "How did you know that?" he asked. "She called me on my cell to complain to me about it," Link replied nonchalantly. He suddenly squinted at his cousin. "How did you get home?"

Sheik shrugged. "Nabooru drove me," he replied simply. He changed the subject to avoid losing sight of the reason he had even come to his cousin's house. "Did you apologize to her?"

"To who?" Link asked, puzzled.

Sheik rubbed his temples, a little annoyed. "To Malon."

Link wrinkled his nose. "No. Why?"

Sheik sighed exasperatedly. "Link, you were supposed to take her home today because she didn't have a ride, but instead you left her and didn't even say bye and you're asking me why you should apologize?"

Link looked sheepish for a moment then shrugged. "Meh. Don't worry about it cuz! She'll forgive me tomorrow. I mean, who could not forgive this face?" Link said smugly, poking his cheeks with his index fingers while grinning. Sheik stared blankly at him.

Link glared at him. "And that's when you say 'nobody can, Link!' Come on Sheik! Get with the program!"

Sheik rolled his eyes. "So what was so important that you forgot about your friends anyway?" Link grinned, his cheeks become slightly flushed. "Zelda!"

Sheik raised an eyebrow. "Elaborate," he stated.

Link fell back onto his bed and sighed. "Me and Zelda are gonna have a private tutoring session Friday!" Sheik raised his eyebrow again. "You…are aware that she has a boyfriend, right?" he asked.

Link bent his neck to glare at his cousin from his reclined position. "I know that! What was his name, Ganondork or somethin'?" Link said carelessly. Sheik chuckled. "Careful, Link, the walls have ears."

Link shrugged. "Whatever. Anyway, I know Zelda's taken, but wouldn't it be great if she wasn't?" Sheik absentmindedly picked dust off his jeans. "I suppose," he replied. He glanced up at his cousin. "But think about it, do you really think that if she was free that you'd get a shot at her?"

Link sat up abruptly and threw his pillow at him, which he deftly dodged. "Oh, well thanks a lot for crushing my dreams! You really know how to boost a guy's ego!" Link snapped sarcastically.

Sheik picked up Link's pillow and wedged it in-between the desk and his back and reclined against it. "I apologize, but I was simply being realistic." Link crossed his arms over his chest. "Well realism isn't allowed in my room!"

The door opened at this moment and both blondes jerked their heads to the side to watch as a young green-haired girl came tumbling in. "Ack!" she exclaimed upon meeting the ground. She peeked up from the floor to meet Link's seething blue gaze.

"What were you doing outside my door!" Link growled. Saria stood to her feet, hands on her hips. "Why don't you keep it locked if you don't want people coming in!" Saria countered with a very ineffective argument.

Link rubbed his temples while Sheik chuckled. Link's younger sister tilted her head to the side. "So who's Zelda? I thought Malon was your girlfriend," she said.

Link leapt from the bed so fast he startled everyone in the room, including himself, and grabbed Saria by the shoulders.

"GET OUT!" he bellowed, practically tossing her into the hallway and slammed the door shut behind her.

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Link sulkily walked alongside his cousin, both carrying mall shopping bags in each hand. Malon walked ahead of them, or a more accurate term would be skipped jubilantly, seemingly determined to buy the mall.

She stopped, as another clothes store caught her eye, and hurried towards it, her two lackeys following reluctantly behind her, one more reluctant than the other.

"Hey, Mal! I think my arms are falling off!" Link complained. Malon glared back at him. "Walk it off!" she snapped in reply. Sheik and Link exchanged glances, and Link sighed in defeat. "How bout we go for some ice cream?" he suggested.

Malon whirled around to face them. "Really?"

Link grinned. "Yeah! And Sheik-" at this moment, his cousin elbowed him in the side, "I mean I'll treat!"

Malon clasped her hands together in delight. "Oh, that's so sweet of you!" she blinked then giggled. "Get it? Sweet, ice cream?" She fell into a gale of laughter and skipped over to the nearest ice cream parlor. Link groaned. "I swear she's scarier when she's acting like a little girl!" he grumbled.

Sheik smiled at his cousin. "Earning forgiveness from females is often made easier by offering something they will enjoy," he said sagely. Link glared at him, lifting the corner of his lip in a snarl. "Thank you, oh wise teacher," he grumbled sarcastically.

They sat down in a booth, Malon across from Link who sat on the outside, beside Sheik. Sheik was glancing absently out the window while they awaited their orders. Moments later, after ordering, their waitress arrived with the ice cream.

"Strawberry for you," she said setting down Malon's cup in front of her, "Cookies 'n Cream for you," she set it down in front of Link, "And Butter Pecan for you sir," she set down the final cup in front of Sheik.

"Thank you," Sheik replied, for the other two had already begun to dig ravenously into their ice cream. Sheik and the waitress sweatdropped. "O-of course," she stammered and hurried away.

While Link was in swallowing mode, Malon balanced her spoon daintily on her finger. "So, Link. What was so important today that you forgot to take me home?" she asked casually.

Link promptly switched to gagging mode.

Sheik calmly patted him on the back while Malon raised an eyebrow. Link glanced sheepishly up at her through his golden bangs. "Aheh heh! Why don't we discuss this later? As in when I'm not within hitting distance-"

"Spit it out Link! I guess you haven't realized it by now, but I'm really pissed about that!" Malon snapped.

Link winced and stared down at the table. He mumbled something that made both Malon and Sheik lean forward even though his cousin had been sitting beside him. "Link! In a conversation, all persons, or at least the person you're talking to, need to-"

"I was setting up a date with Zelda Hyrule!" Link interrupted the redhead.

Malon let the spoon fall from her finger and it landed on the table with a clatter. Her mouth had dropped open and her blue eyes were wide. Seeing her reaction, Link quickly held his hands up.

"Well, it really wasn't a date date. Just a…uh…um study session thing…y," Link said as a cover-up. A really bad cover-up.

Link never saw it coming.

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"Ouch!" Link whined, as Sheik gently applied ice to his cousin's black eye. "Shut it. You deserved it, in my opinion, so suck it up," Sheik replied simply. Link whimpered.

After Malon had socked the lights out of Link, she had stormed out of the ice cream parlor in a huff. The two cousins had gone after her, but she quite effectively got her point across that she didn't want to talk to them and had walked home by herself.

They were currently at Sheik's apartment, since Link wasn't about to go home just yet and have his sister make fun of him for getting punched by a girl, and then his mother whining and nagging about his eye.

Link was lounged across Sheik's sofa while the other blond sat in an armchair beside him. Link glared his one good eye at him. "I hate you. You aren't supposed to take her side!" Link growled.

Sheik shrugged, grabbing the remote, and turned on the telly. "I don't take the side of jerks."

Link bared his teeth and was about to retort violently, when he suddenly reevaluated the whole afternoon. He had ditched Malon, one of his closest friends, just to think about calling Zelda, one of the most beautiful and most popular girls in school and also amongst the snobbiest, who already had a boyfriend, just to have a study session with her.

Maybe he really had been a jerk.

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